Elephantine in Context
Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt
1st Edition
Published on 16. February 2022
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397 pages
978-3-16-160996-1 (ISBN)
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Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit der spektakulären Entdeckung von archäologischen Relikten und epigraphischen Quellen der Militärkolonie auf der Nilinsel Elephantine, an der Grenze zwischen Ägypten und dem heutigen Sudan. Die Beiträger untersuchen drei Hauptthemen: Gesellschaft und Verwaltung, Religion und Literatur.
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Geboren 1957; Studium der Gräzistik und Ev. Theologie in Frankfurt a.M., Heidelberg und Zürich; Promotion und Habilitation in Zürich; Professor für Altes Testament in Göttingen.
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Born 1968; 1999 Dr. theol. at the University of Bonn; 2004 Dr. phil. (Egyptology) at the University of Hamburg; since 2010 Professor for Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Content
Reinhard G. Kratz/Bernd U. Schipper:
Introduction
1. Society and Administration
Gulia Francesca Grassi: "Do We Know the Arameans?" (SAA 17,176). The Use of Ethnonyms in the Aramaic Documents from Egypt - Holger Gzella: The Scribal Habit of Achaemenid Administrators, Its Educational Underpinnings, and Its Reception in the Hebrew Bible - Alexander Schütze: The Legal Context of the Aramaic Legal Tradition on Elephantine Reconsidered - Sylvie Honigman: Serving the Kings, Building Temples, and Paying the "Jewish Tax". Aramaic-Speaking Judeans and Their Descendants in Upper Egypt from Persian to Early Imperial Times
2. Religion
Alexandra von Lieven: Spätägyptische Religion in und um Elephantine - Collin Cornell/Brent A. Strawn: Is Judean Religion at Elephantine a Pidgin? Reassessing Its Relationship to Its Antecedents and Congeners - Bob Becking: "That Evil Act". A Thick Description of the Crisis around the Demolition of the Temple of Yahô at Elephantine - Bernd U. Schipper: The Judeans/Arameans of Elephantine and Their Religion. An Egyptological Perspective
3. Literature
James D. Moore: "Ahikariana" at Elephantine. New Readings of Berlin P. 13446 and Developments in Ahiqar Research - Joachim Friedrich Quack: Die demotischen Fragmente der Erzählung und der Sprüche des Achiqar - Reinhard G. Kratz: A?iqar and Bisitun. The Literature of the Judeans at Elephantine - Tawny L. Holm: Papyrus Amherst 63 and the Arameans of Egypt. A Landscape of Cultural Nostalgia - Karel van der Toorn: The Background of the Elephantine Jews in Light of Papyrus Amherst 63
1. Society and Administration
Gulia Francesca Grassi: "Do We Know the Arameans?" (SAA 17,176). The Use of Ethnonyms in the Aramaic Documents from Egypt - Holger Gzella: The Scribal Habit of Achaemenid Administrators, Its Educational Underpinnings, and Its Reception in the Hebrew Bible - Alexander Schütze: The Legal Context of the Aramaic Legal Tradition on Elephantine Reconsidered - Sylvie Honigman: Serving the Kings, Building Temples, and Paying the "Jewish Tax". Aramaic-Speaking Judeans and Their Descendants in Upper Egypt from Persian to Early Imperial Times
2. Religion
Alexandra von Lieven: Spätägyptische Religion in und um Elephantine - Collin Cornell/Brent A. Strawn: Is Judean Religion at Elephantine a Pidgin? Reassessing Its Relationship to Its Antecedents and Congeners - Bob Becking: "That Evil Act". A Thick Description of the Crisis around the Demolition of the Temple of Yahô at Elephantine - Bernd U. Schipper: The Judeans/Arameans of Elephantine and Their Religion. An Egyptological Perspective
3. Literature
James D. Moore: "Ahikariana" at Elephantine. New Readings of Berlin P. 13446 and Developments in Ahiqar Research - Joachim Friedrich Quack: Die demotischen Fragmente der Erzählung und der Sprüche des Achiqar - Reinhard G. Kratz: A?iqar and Bisitun. The Literature of the Judeans at Elephantine - Tawny L. Holm: Papyrus Amherst 63 and the Arameans of Egypt. A Landscape of Cultural Nostalgia - Karel van der Toorn: The Background of the Elephantine Jews in Light of Papyrus Amherst 63